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Revision history for CPAN-Testers-WWW-Statistics
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1.23    2017-06-19
        - refactored noreports to use new stats_store table.
        - sort by dist name for output of noreport files.
        - add stats_store data in tests.
        - include CSV file differences in tests.

1.22    2017-06-12
        - updated date ranges for graphs.
        - build_history setting established to configure the number of days
          displayed in performance graphs.
        - try/catch block added to avoid JSON failures crashing the process.
        - iheart CSS/JS updated from production environment

1.21    2015-04-17
        - refinements to pass matrix changes.
        - added check for some bad data storage.

1.20    2015-04-16
        - pass matrix is now a database table. Changed due to problems storing
          as a JSON file.

1.19    2015-02-08
        - removed Perl promotions links.
        - added Admin site links.

1.18    2015-02-07
        - fixed sorting of various lists.

1.17    2014-08-16
        - fixed license fields in META.json to be lists.

1.16    2014-08-16
        - added ability to retrieve stored JSON data.
        - added cpanstats-storage script.
        - reworked matrix monthly data calculations.

1.15    2014-08-16
        - added uploads.cgi script to create an uploads page.
        - added new uploads link to sidebar menu.
        - fresh release for #cpanday.

1.14    2014-07-04
        - add logic for tester preferred contact address.

1.13    2014-06-11
        - added new distributions pages.
        - added new distribution versions page.
        - added submission rate graphs.
        - reworked graph filename & path creation.
        - added new (build|make)_cpan method.

1.12    2014-06-02
        - added cpan/backpan 100 files to CPAN Stats page creation.
        - DateTime is now a pre-requisite.
        - added full version checks in META tests.
        - skip tests if environment has not been configured.

1.11    2014-05-11
        - build performance data in isolation.

1.10    2014-04-21
        - tester() now returns an list.
        - monthstore and mainstore merged.
        - storage elements now saved in individual files.
        - dist lists written in lexical order.

1.09    2014-01-01
        - format of 01mailrc.txt has changed.

1.08    2014-01-01
        - fixed HTML rendering of names and email addresses.
        - dropped DBD::SQLite from prerequisites.

1.07    2013-12-27
        - added support for tester profiles.
        - added directory sizes (as suggested by David Golden).
        - reworked tester name lookups.

1.06    2013-08-18
        - template patches (thanks to Chorny).
        - set day and month names explicitly in Time::Piece.

1.05    2013-04-14
        - updated CSS.
        - fixed date tests.
        - provided additional logging.
        - extended the 'copy' files list.
        - parse title as HTML.

1.04    2013-03-31
        - add link to data file from html file for noreports.
        - RUNDATEs are based on DB timestamp not current timestamp (t/30setdates.t)
        - updated timestamps in templates to ease testing.
        - added minified CSS files.
        - added support for JSON loading of sponsors.

1.03    2013-01-13
        - abandoned support on Win32 until strftime in Time::Piece works.
        - updated license urls in META files.
        - added functionality to create CSV files for noreports feature.

1.02    2013-01-01
        - updated script:
          - bin/addresses.pl            (v0.17)
            - add metabase lookup.
            - switch to using phrasebook patterns.
            - added more legitimate 3/4 character gTLDs.
        - added new test script, 30setdates.t.
        - added new nreports functionality.
        - added sorttable.js - (c) Stuart Langridge.
        - better date testing.

1.01    2012-12-23
        - change file dates changed to meet W3CDTF standards.
        - provide skips if Google Chart API returns an error.
        - fixed labelling on percentage tables.
        - removed prototypes for alarm_handler.

1.00    2012-07-01
        - moved _tester_name() into parent as tester().
        - added Leaderboard management module.
        - updated POD
        - updated/new scripts:
          - bin/cpanstats-writegraphs   (v0.52)
          - bin/cpanstats-writepages    (v0.52)
          - bin/cpanstats-leaderboard   (v0.01)

0.99    2012-04-22
        - META tests no longer require specific versions.
        - fixed pre-requisite lists.

0.98    2012-04-22
        - SEE ALSO package name fixes.
        - reworded index and failure pages.
        - removed requirement on local SQLite database.
        - spelling fixes. (thanks to Florian Schlichting & Gregor Herrmann).
        - changes to scripts with above fixes:
          - bin/addresses.pl            (v0.16)
          - bin/cpanstats-writegraphs   (v0.51)
          - bin/cpanstats-writepages    (v0.51)
          - bin/getmailrc.pl            (v0.03)
        - removed files, as no longer required:
          - t/data/21config08.ini
          - t/data/21config09.ini
        - added CPAN Testers Sponsors and Perl adverts.
        - added minimum perl version (5.006).
        - fixed test pre-requisites.
        - reworked Makefile.PL for clarity.

0.97    2012-01-31
        - final leaderboard fixes (os and total).

0.96    2012-01-30
        - set_max & set_range reworked (Graph.pm).
        - fix dates for test database creation.
        - fixed range limits.
        - remove social media bar.

0.95    2012-01-26
        - removed NNTP code from cpanmail.cgi.
        - added cpanmail.ini to cgi templates.
        - don't overwrite basic files in case they have changed.
        - added the ability to link basic files.
        - changed date names
        - leaderboard fixes.

0.94    2011-08-21
        - revised banner logo image by Jon 'JJ' Allen.
        - update to MANIFEST to include missing layout images.
        - added addresses.pl example shell scripts.
        - added cpanstats-admin.pl to examples.
        - removed obsolete updates.pl script.
        - redesigned _build_monthly_stats() to use JSON file storage.
        - fixed tests for Win32 (patches by Christian Walde).
        - fixed main leaderboard listings.
        - fixed first/last testers stats.

0.93    2011-07-13
        - added more filters for 'no reports' in example config.
        - update layout to include an update notification.
        - added new social media bar

0.92    2011-07-09
        - added filters for distros that should not appear in the 'no reports' 
          list.

0.91    2011-07-04
        - updated favicon links.
        - added 'no report' functionality.
        - made path to 01mailrc.txt a configurable parameter.

0.90    2011-07-03
        - fixes to prevent blank oses being displayed in leaderboards.
        - adjustments to postdates in leaderboards.

0.89    2011-07-03
        - added matrix and stats calls, running sections of full stats run.
        - storage read & write now methods.
        - limit data updates to 1000000 records, to reduce memory consumption.
        - more environment info passed to matrix list templates.
        - changes to scripts to use new interface:
          - bin/cpanstats-writegraphs   (v0.50)
          - bin/cpanstats-writepages    (v0.50)
        - major XHTML updates for WAI WCAG v2.0 compliance.
        - reorganised links and names to be consistent across pages.
        - restructured Pages.pm, to allow process to be called in stages.
        - added terms & conditions page.
        - changed storage method to mainstore and added leadstore for JSON data
          storage files.
        - updated tests.
        - added missing method for the missing-in-action file path.

0.88    2010-10-31
        - added further timestamp test pattern.
        - fixed spelling mistake.
        - reorganised stats storage.
        - update {dists} from ixlatest table with each run.
        - reworked {build} refresh to remember tallies correctly.

0.87    2010-10-23
        - further domain patterns to ignore.
          - bin/addresses.pl (0.15).
        - simplification of state lookups.
        - reduced data held in memory.
        - reduced lookup time by storing data with each run.
        - added META.json.
        - revised META files and prerequisites.
        - revised pingtest.

0.86    2010-09-26
        - added Metabase and Labyrinth links.
        - repositioned site boxes to avoid text and logo clashing.
        - added reset.sh to examples to help rebuild expected.zip.
        - added data/01mailrc.txt for testing purposes.
        - broken WWW::Mechanize dropped in favour of basic LWP.

0.85    2010-05-28
        - added missing.html for missing in action PAUSE accounts.
        - extended the stats of cpan to provide milestones.
        - bugfixes to find a tester feature.

0.84    2010-04-20
        - fixed ranges() to return correct ranges for a range ending on or 
          after the current month, and ignore any that start on or after the
          current month.
        - fixed path of matrix output files.
        - reinstated a doctored data/01mailrc.txt into distribution.

0.83    2010-04-07
        - upgrade to cpanmail.cgi script to perform report ID and Metabase 
          GUID lookups by default. Still provides support for nntpid lookups if
          called correct API.
        - updated addresses.pl script (0.05).
        - removed data/01mailrc.txt from distribution.

0.82    2010-03-27
        - reworked _build_failure_rates()

0.81    2010-03-08
        - added check feature to addresses.pl.
        - ignore BACKPAN only distributions in failure rates.
        - Win32 fixes in tests.
        - added recent failure rate tables.

0.80    2010-02-06
        - fixes to stats2 graph data.

0.79    2010-02-03
        - updates from live.

0.78    2010-02-03
        - added support for new guid & type fields.
        - implemented more efficient monthly stats calculations.
        - fix for runaway osnames.
        - matrix files named by platform/os and perl

0.77    2010-01-18
        - added code and SQL to ignore invalid reports.
        - added CSS files to MANIFEST.

0.76    2010-01-07
        - added quote.html.
        - added Analysis to site family lists.
        - upped copyright date
        - updated interesting stats page, removing references to posts to the
          cpan-testers mailing list, now listing only report counts, and hiding
          the ID link to actual report.

0.75    2009-12-09
        - fixed skip test counts.
        - added eval over get request in the event of timeout.

0.74    2009-11-26
        - merged fixes from Alex Chorny (thanks Alex).
        - added new percentage graph, at the suggestion of Slave J. Nilsen

0.73    2009-11-01
        - further reorganisation to avoid losing DB connection
        - fix to allow for counts that are set before main stats build.
        - added header/total cells to left and bottom parts of all matrices.

0.72    2009-10-26
        - moved DB process for submission rates earlier to avoid losing DB 
          connection.

0.71    2009-10-26
        - added links for Excel downloads.
        - added dashboard.

0.70    2009-10-21
        - added functionality to use the new osname table.
        - further work on matrices:
          - added totals to X & Y axis
          - sorted on Y axis values
          - added wide format pages to each matrix
        - slight reorganisation of failure tables.
        - changed named anchors as some browsers don't rendering them 
          correctly.
        - added table for monthly OS counts.

0.69    2009-10-18
        - hash passing depreciated in favour of object variables.
        - distribution and reports matrices merged, now split between OS name
          and platform name, then further split with all perls or official 
          perls, then split again based on last month, or from the first to
          the most current.
        - brought back colour variations to the matrices.
        - added page anchor to raw data.

0.68    2009-10-15
        - broke out functionality of _write_stats() into more manageable chunks
        - further reduced SQL calls.
        - added a schema file for all the tables in the cpanstats database in 
          examples/cpanstats.sql
        - added functionality to handle daily graphs.
        - added performance page and graph
        - graphs and data files now created in a dedicated stats sub-directory.
        - made raw data files available.

0.67    2009-10-13
        - improvements to the layout of interesting stats page.
        - moved from Class::Accessor::Chained::Fast to Class::Accessor::Fast
        - improved processing logic for interesting stats, with a speed up of
          over 20mins.

0.66    2009-07-25
        - added stats and graphs about CPAN, including extra menu section.

0.65    2009-06-06
        - removal of data files into the cpanstats-data package.

0.64    2009-06-03
        - added attributions to HTML templates.
        - fixed CSS issues for IE (thanks to JJ).
        - rewrote addresses.pl (v0.14) to work with more recent codebase.

0.63    2009-05-19
        - change to new layout design.
        - new style graphs added.
        - TOCOPY and RANGES added to configuration rather than hardcoded.
        - removal of updates/blog aspect, which is now part of cpanblog site.

0.62    2009-03-25
        - updated pre-requisites for test files.

0.61    2009-03-24
        - template headers updated.
        - added further release test file - 95changedate.t
        - added further version tests to 94metatest.t
        - updated cpanmail.cgi (v0.04) to use CPAN::Testers::Common::DBUtils 
          and a config file contain the database connection settings.

0.60    2009-02-02
        - added sponsor message to templates/layout.html.
        - added missing DBD dependencies.

0.59    2009-01-30
        - updated addresses.pl (v0.13) to ignore further generic domains.
        - updated test to ignore minor distro version changes.
        - added missing Class::Accessor::Chained::Fast dependency.

0.58    2009-01-26
        - added missing Config::IniFiles dependency.

0.57    2009-01-25
        - reworked 56writes.t with a test version of the templates directory.

0.56    2009-01-25
        - added new testers graph.
        - removed Database.pm and replaced with new prerequisite 
          CPAN::Testers::Common::DBUtils
        - redesigned API so that Statistics.pm now handles common code pieces.
        - changes to scripts to use new interface:
            bin/cpanstats-writegraphs   (v0.49)
            bin/cpanstats-writepages    (v0.49)
        - added new test suite

0.55    2009-01-20
        - wording fix in interesting.html.
        - URL fixes in templates.

0.54    2009-01-12
        - updated addresses.pl (v0.12) to ignore further generic domains. Also
          added ability to sort patterns, without including reversed strings.
        - fix to previous month calculation when it's January (D'oh!).
        - added postings to cpan-testers to the interesting stats page.

0.53    2008-11-19
        - fixed template navigation links (thanks to Steffen Kaiser)
        - cpanmail.cgi (0.03) fix to stop apache error log entries.
        - added script name reference to warnings
        - reduced length of request string to Google Graphs by only using the
          first letter of every other month, and removing '000' and replacing
          with 'k' to represent values of over 1000.

0.52    2008-10-09
        - added interesting stats page (thanks to JJ for the suggestion)..

0.51    2008-10-01
        - updated index template with correct links.

0.50    2008-09-26
        - removed dependency of CPAN::WWW::Testers::Generator::Article from
          cpanmail.cgi (v0.02) and used Email::Simple directly.
        - fixed style sheet references in some templates.
        - fixed a number of warnings about undefined values in numeric 
          comparisons.
        - fixed XHTML errors in templates.
        - fixed cpanmail.cgi to ignore non-numeric characters, this is
          to ignore the 'msg' part if anyone enters that.
        - added text to cpanmail.html giving examples of what the NNTP ID is.


0.49    2008-09-18
        - amended bin/addresses.pl (v0.11) to only check reports.
        - added further domains in matching to be ignored
        - switched to Sort::Versions rather than version

0.48    2008-09-03
        - complete abstraction of scripts into modules.
        - removal of cpanstats database scripts and code into
          CPAN-WWW-Testers-Generator code base.
        - added javascript dropdown to redirect to other sites.
        - added script to grab 01mailrc.txt file.
        - data files removed from the distribution, as they will have their own
          release only from the stats site.
        - changed all grango.org domains to the correct cpantesters.org domains.
        - added RSS feed creation code.
        - added RRS Feed and Blog links to navigation.
        - added Perl Community AdServer links
        - First release to CPAN.
        - consistently provided help|h and version|V options to all scripts:
            bin/addresses.pl            (v0.10)
            bin/cpanstats-writegraphs   (v0.48)
            bin/cpanstats-writepages    (v0.48)
            bin/updates.pl              (v0.01)

0.47    2008-08-18
        - allow database to be a command line option (writestats.pl v0.47)
        - added use of Getopt::ArgvFile.
        - added Getopt dependencies.
        - added more email => name translations.
        - moved addresses.txt to ./data directory.
        - moved addresses.pl (v0.10) to ./bin directory and updated paths.

0.46    2008-08-05
        - fixed compressed database size display in writestats.pl (v0.46).
        - removed current month stats from latest graphs (writestats.pl).

0.45    2008-08-04
        - added more email => name translations.
        - added better domain detection in addresses.pl (v0.09).
        - fixed database size display in writestats.pl (v0.45).

0.44    2008-07-02
        - added more email => name translations.
        - reordered address file.
        - selectstats.pl (v0.04) adds the facility to search for entries with
          an empty string in the platform and perl fields by using a dash, '-'
          as the value to the command line option.
        - added nntpid select option to selectstats.pl.
        - added support for Base64 encoded articles to Article.pm (v0.11).
        - updated index.html/updates.html in templates

0.43    2008-06-26
        - added more email => name translations.
        - bug fix to include 'edu', 'mil', and 'museum' as TLD in the address 
          searching script, addresses.pl (v0.08).
        - favicon.ico added to the MANIFEST.
        - minor syntax fix in cpanstats.pl (v0.13).

0.42    2008-06-24
        - added more email => name translations.
        - fixed bug in Article.pm, where 'archname=' was being found in the
          test report and not the perl -V output.
        - fixed bug for printing HTML entities written in hex.
        - fixed reparse.pl (v0.05) logging bug.
        - date parsing now looks at the last date contained in the received
          headers or the date header, in case bogus date stamps are given.
          Article.pm (v0.10), reparse.pl and cpanstats.pl (0.12) updated.
        - added viewarticle.pl (v0.01) tool to retrieve and view a complete 
          article, for one or more articles.

0.41    2008-06-10
        - added more email => name translations.
        - reworked writestats.pl due to memory consumption issues.
        - extracted writegraphs out of writestats.pl into a separate script,
          writegraphs.pl (v0.01), in an attempt to reduce memory consumption.
        - updated cpanstats.pl (v0.11) and reparse.pl (v0.04) to stop if no 
          article is returned.
        - updated reparse.pl to write to the log file as per cpanstats.pl.
        - readstats.pl (v0.15) no longer stores the whole log file!
        - changed readstats.pl and writestats.pl to use DBI iterators.

0.40    2008-06-03
        - added more email => name translations.
        - fixed spelling mistakes in updates.html.
        - added CGI as a prerequisites for dynamic tools.

0.39    2008-05-27
        - added Find A Tester CGI lookup facility.

0.38    2008-05-15
        - added more email => name translations.
        - fixed readstats.log (v0.14) to remove excessive newlines.
        - updated writestats.pl to handle daily updates.
        - added more automated calculations to the templates.

0.37    2008-04-13
        - added more email => name translations.
        - graphs now generated by Google Chart API.
        - due to overwelling amount of data, graphs altered slightly.
        - WWW::Mechanize replaces GD::Graph::lines as a dependency.
        - fixed version sorting as suggested by Earle Martin.

0.36    2008-03-03
        - added more email => name translations
        - fixed to Articles.pm to correctly parse distributions such as
          'D/DA/DAMOG/WWW-Tumblr-0.tar.gz'
        - fixed cpanstats.pl (v0.10), readstats.pl (v0.12) and reparse.pl 
          (v0.03) to correctly handle above type distributions

0.35    2008-02-05
        - added more email => name translations

0.34    2008-01-02
        - added more email => name translations
        - cpanstats.pl (v0.09) now records better log information in order to 
          ease network confirmation for readstats.pl
        - readstats.pl (v0.11) reworked to read cpanstats.log for as much info 
          as possible before having to revert to an NNTP lookup.
        - readstats.pl now uses Getopt::ArgvFile to avoid updating the code,
          thus there is a new .readstats.pl configuration file added to the
          release.
        - updated POD - selectstats.pl (v0.03)
        - platform option can now be a partial match - selectstats.pl (v0.03)
        - added reparse.pl (v0.02) to distribution
        - ignore empty lines from input file - upstats.pl (v0.02)

0.33    2007-11-02
        - added more email => name translations
        - Don't re-encode an already HTML entity encoded testers name

0.32    2007-10-02
        - added more email => name translations
        - Added view of the spread of TLDs from tester addresses (addresses.pl)
        - Added updates page for previous news updates
        - Added counts for source/target tester addresses

0.31    2007-09-03
        - Added HTML::Entities to prerequisites in order to fix HTML entities 
          in tester names.

0.30    2007-09-02
        - added index creation commands to cpanstats.pl (v0.08)
        - added more email => name translations
        - updated POD in readstats.pl (v0.10)
        - added search feature to readstats.pl to list NNTP subjects directly
        - added photo of Chris, Dave and Andreas to the index page :)

0.29    2007-08-06
        - added more email => name translations

0.28    2007-07-03
        - added more email => name translations
        - updated index page to reference CPAN Testers Wiki

0.27    2007-06-09
        - updates to delstats.pl and readstats.pl to match current server 
          versions
        - added more email => name translations

0.26    2007-06-05
        - added upstats.pl to the distribution, which helps to update any 
          entries, which haven't been inserted correctly.

0.25    2007-05-12
        - added Google Analytics code to layout template

0.24    2007-05-04
        - added more email => name translations
        - bad entries or parsing no longer recorded in the DB. This will 
          hopefully enable me to update some parts of the site on a more 
          regular basis (cpanstats.pl v0.07)
        - only print headings if we have something to report 
          (readstats.pl v0.08)
        - updates to AUTHOR & COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE entries in POD
        - updated selectstats.pl to supply a distname from the commandline
        - added monthly counts for Testers, Platforms & Perls pages

0.23    2007-04-14
        - added a new stats matrix for distributions
        - added click thru lists of distributions for the new matrix
        - revamped the navigation

0.22    2007-03-23
        - added more email => name translations
        - added more general domains to ignore when mapping in address.pl

0.21    2007-03-12
        - further changes to the Failure Counts page, to allow for more fields
          and the ability to order by count or percentage.

0.20    2007-03-10
        - added missing template (wdists.html) to MANIFEST

0.19    2007-03-10
        - added more email => name translations
        - added the selectstats.pl script to help get quick results back from
          the DB
        - added the Failure Counts feature, following a suggestion from Adam
          Kennedy. Note that it does not ignore duplicate reports

0.18    2007-03-08
        - added more email => name translations

0.17    2007-02-07
        - added more email => name translations
        - address translation script modified to list only matched addresses
          from a specified date

0.16    2007-01-02
        - added more email => name translations
        - increased graph sizes to be more readable
        - changed code and templates to produce tabulated data output
        - modified CSS for the above

0.15    2006-12-01
        - added more email => name translations
        - address translation script modified to include a (commented out)
          line to show how to only search for recent postings

0.14    2006-11-01
        - added more email => name translations
        - fixed bug in address translation script
        - added address translation script to distribution

0.13    2006-10-09
        - added 100+ email => name translations
        - changed way unmatched addresses are displayed on the website (to 
          help reduce any spam harvesting)

0.12    2006-09-05
        - added more email => name translations

0.11    2006-06-03
        - added more email => name translations

0.10    2006-04-03
        - added more email => name translations
        - extra graph - UPLOADS/FAIL/UNKNOWN

0.09    2006-03-02
        - two bugs fixed in Article.pm, firstly only decode Quoted Printable,
          if it is, and secondly the platform in the subject was being parsed
          correctly.
        - added more email => name translations
        - addresses now in separate data file

0.08    2006-02-19
        - added more email => name translations
        - spelling & grammar fixes

0.07    2006-02-18
        - added matrix page to statistics website

0.06    2006-02-02
        - First public release
        - more address to testers listed
        - fixed HTML parsing for address strings with '<' in them

        Prior versions were not recorded.